A Beginner’s Guide to Starting a Successful Blog

When you want to start a business or take your blog to a professional level, you might start to doubt yourself early on. Can you really handle a business all on your own? Are you ready? Well, girl, yes you are! You might not be Sheryl Sandberg right now, but who says you couldn’t be in ten years time? All that matters now is that you want to start a blogging business and that you’re going to make it happen. And if you’re worried about not looking the part, don’t sweat it. Because you’ve got this. To help you feel like you have, you can fake it ’til you make it and we’re going to talk through exactly how you’re going to do that.

Read Up

Firstly, you’re going to want to make sure that you get your research done. It’s okay to just start blogging, of course, because you will find your feet and you will discover what works best for you. But, that could take some time. If you go in blind, you’ll have to learn along the way, and that’s not necessarily the best way to start a business. Instead, you need resources. If you want to make this into a legitimate business from the start, you should be thinking about what you need to do that. So look into ways to make money, grow your audience, and keep your business growing.

Be Consistent

While your blog, or any other kind of business, is doing its thing, you need to make it look like the big dog that it’s not. And to do that, you need to be consistent. If you’re posting or putting effort into your business just here and there, it’s going to take you time to see success, and you’re not going to look very professional while you’re doing it. But, if you’re posting on time, or sticking to a strict promotional schedule, your efforts will pay off. And you’ll look like a big dog in the meantime too.

Use Freebies

One thing that you might realize at this stage is that you don’t have an awful lot of budget to work with. Some businesses will look at getting investors to take their business off right away, but when you’re looking to start a blog, you can do that on your own, with minimal investment. Just use freebies. From promoting your blog or business on social media for free, to using a free website template, there are things you can do for free that will help you to get up and going, and still look professional.

Get Help

But you are going to find that you can’t do everything yourself. And if you want to look professional until you really do hit it big time, you’re going to need some assistance with everything from a logo generation tool if you can’t design it yourself to an ebook format if you’re not sure how to do it. Because if you want to look professional and it’s not working, then you need to get help.

Practice Makes Perfect

Above all else, just give it a try and then keep trying. Just because you don’t get it at first, or it takes you longer to get to where you should be, it doesn’t mean you should give up. You just have to keep on going and you’ll get there when you’re meant to.

Hey there! I'm Abby - a coffee addicted life coach /educator/blogger/mama with a creative soul + passionate heart. My goal is to inspire and encourage passionate women to live a life fulfilled through self-care, a healthy lifestyle, mindfulness, and personal development. Read More…